Aligned Standard

M.EE.6.NS.5-8: Understand that positive and negative numbers are used together to describe quantities having opposite directions or values (e.g., temperature above/below zero).

Grade Level Standard

This is aligned with the following California State Standards:

  • 6.NS.5 - Understand that positive and negative numbers are used together to describe quantities having opposite directions or values (e.g., temperature above/below zero, elevation above/below sea level, credits/debits, positive/negative electric charge); use positive and negative numbers to represent quantities in real-world contexts, explaining the meaning of 0 in each situation.
  • 6.NS.8 - Solve real-world and mathematical problems by graphing points in all four quadrants of the coordinate plane. Include use of coordinates and absolute value to find distances between points with the same first coordinate or the same second coordinate.

Linkage Level Descriptions

Initial Precursor

Communicate understanding of separateness by recognizing objects that are not joined together. Communicate understanding of set by recognizing a group of objects sharing an attribute.

Distal Precursor

Count all objects in a set to communicate the total number of objects in that set. Identify sets having the same number of objects. Identify a set containing a different number of objects than the other two sets. Recognize a set containing more or fewer objects than the other set.

Proximal Precursor

Communicate understanding that opposite numbers are equidistant from zero but in opposite directions, or that when two opposite numbers are added together they yield a sum of zero (e.g., 3 + (- 3) = 0, thus 3 and -3 are opposite numbers).

Target

Demonstrate use of positive and negative numbers in real-world contexts such as temperature, elevation, credits, and debits (e.g., representing a debit of 500 dollars as -500 dollars).

Successor

Communicate understanding of inequalities in real-world contexts (e.g., -3 degrees > -7 degrees means that -3 degrees is warmer than -7 degrees). Communicate the meaning of zero in relation to positive and negative numbers in real-world contexts (e.g., recognize that no elevation, or 0 feet, means at sea level; positive elevation, for example, 200 feet, means above sea level; and negative elevation, for example, -200 feet, means below sea level).